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mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux

Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...

2025-06-24 11:30

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the pletho...

2025-06-24 10:15

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Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 Continues Baking Panther Lake, More Optimizations

Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release...

2025-06-24 08:44

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Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposa...

2025-06-24 06:43

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Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space

Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...

2025-06-24 06:16

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RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2

Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

2025-06-24 06:06

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Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...

2025-06-24 05:40

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RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but ...

2025-06-23 20:40

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IBM Already Working On What Is Likely Power12 Support For The GCC Compiler

While we await the formal IBM Power11 launch in 2025, IBM engineers are already working on compiler support for "future" post-Power11 processors with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

2025-06-23 15:15

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Intel Xeon 6300 vs. AMD EPYC 4005 SMT/HT Performance

While the latest Intel Core Ultra processors have done away with Hyper Threading (HT), Intel Xeon CPUs continue supporting HT/SMT, including with their latest Xeon 6300 series budget server processors. As the new AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors also s...

2025-06-23 12:00

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Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API

Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (ESR) version...

2025-06-23 10:20

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GIMP 3.1.2 Released As First Step Toward GIMP 3.2

GIMP 3.1.2 was just released as the first development version on the road toward GIMP 3.2 stable...

2025-06-23 09:05

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Fair DRM Scheduler Looking Good For Better Fairness & Scheduling Of GPU Clients

Being worked on for a while has been a "Fair" DRM scheduler inspired by Linux's CFS scheduler and aiming for better performance and scheduling behavior between multiple GPU interactive clients sharing GPU resources...

2025-06-23 08:55

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UEFI SBAT Support Coming Together Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Support for UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting "SBAT" looks like it could be buttoned up in the mainline kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle...

2025-06-23 08:40

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RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

2025-06-23 06:29

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AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM

Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

2025-06-23 06:00

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IceWM 3.8 Brings New Optimizations & Changes

For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity...

2025-06-23 03:00

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Linux 6.16-rc3 Released: Various Bug Fixes While Bcachefs Changes Not Pulled

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3 in marching toward the Linux 6.16 kernel release due out around late July...

2025-06-22 16:52

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More Intel TDX Code Merged For KVM In Linux 6.16

Merged minutes ago ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc3 release due out shortly was this week's batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates. Beyond the usual KVM fixes merged for the week, a bit of feature code was pulled in by Linus Torvalds for this p...

2025-06-22 16:18

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20...

2025-06-22 09:27

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